GREEN (US ALTERNATIVE) / GREEN / CD

チープなギター・サウンドと青春全開なメロが転がり落ちような演奏と共に炸裂する名曲"Gotta Getta Record Out"1曲だけで買う価値大有りなシカゴのパワーポップ・バンド、グリーンのアンソロジー。1986年のファーストに1984年のデビューEP7曲("Gotta Getta Record Out"のシングルヴァージョン含む)をプラス。初期衝動に満ちたグッド・ロッキンが詰まってます。


Track listing: 1. Gotta Getta Record Out (2:20); 2. She's Not a Little Girl Anymore (3:27); 3. Technology (2:17); 4. Curry Your Favor (2:56); 5. Baby Why? (1:39); 6. I Play the Records (3:13); 7. Better Way (3:43); 8. If You Love Me (2:41); 9. I Don't Wanna Say No (3:18); 10. For You (3:01); 11. Hurt You (3:27); 12. She, Probably (2:25); 13. I'm Not Going Down (Anymore) (2:15); 14. Big in Japan (3:14)

Bonus Tracks: 15. Gotta Getta Record Out (EP version) (2:19); 16. I Don't Wanna Say No (EP version) (3:05); 17. Better Way (EP version) (3:31); 18. I'm Not Going Down (Anymore) (EP version) (2:09); 19. Something about You (2:59); 20. Autograph (3:39); 21. Away from the Pulsebeat (4:40)


Green arrived in the mid-1980s, amidst a Chicago scene that included bands like Naked Raygun, Big Black, and Ministry (and eventually, Material Issue and Smashing Pumpkins). Green bypassed the major label-express that many of those other bands rode to fame and fortune, and continued to make records their own DIY way, records which were lauded in the pages of Trouser Press, Spin, and The Village Voice, among others. And with each passing year there are an increasing number of folks who are convinced that their debut LP is worthy of those Mojo/VH1/Spin/ lists of the top 50 or 100 rock albums of all time. From the first pulsating, exuberant notes of the intro, the band knows what they want to say: kids get ready, gotta rock steady, because they ‘Gotta Getta Record Out,’ they are trying to ‘Curry Your Favor,’ they play the records, and maybe most of all, they want to be ‘Big in Japan’! One astute reviewer said: "The band darts through decades of pop history as impatiently as the 'Spiral Scratch'-era Buzzcocks, with band leader Jeff Lescher’s voice ranging from Princely falsetto to gravel-tinged field holler, but most often sounding as though someone stepped on Paul McCartney’s toes in 1965." And as another reviewer quite rightly said, "This is such a flawless pop masterpiece that I’m not even ashamed to trot out terms like 'flawless pop masterpiece.'" Green may be the bee’s knees for anglophile power poppers, but they deserve more notice than that; they were the kind of all-embracing band, with a taste for punk, glam rock and soul―and with a twitchy sort of energy―of the sort that burbled around in the late-80s, pre-grunge underground (a little Feelies anyone?). It remains a mystery why other bands are fixed in the collective memory as the era's best―at the very least, Green should make a list of top obscure pop groups of all time! Booklet has band history and lyrics, plus many a fine photo, all courtesy of Lescher. Seven bonus tracks, including the CD debut of the band’s 1984 EP "The Name of This Band is Green." Printed on FSC recycled, chlorine-free, 100% post-consumer fiber paper manufactured using biogas energy.

"Their (first) 45 had two absolute masterpieces: ‘Gotta Getta Record Out,’ which yelps and shouts along like the best of the old Bongos or Jam or Feelies or somebody, and ‘I Don’t Want To Say No,’ which is the sort of white Motown that assholes like the Replacments could never get right. This is not a punk record, except perhaps in spirit, but it isn’t any worse for that."―Steve Albini